Gabriel Penteado is Program Associate of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force, at the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Danielle Anz is an Environmental Science student at University of California, Los Angeles

Ruthie Lazenby (she/her) is the Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law for 2023-2025, where her work will focus on energy law and regulation.

Shivani Shukla is a Research Fellow in the Climate Program at CLEE. Her work focuses on the development of climate and environmental policies, particularly on methane and natural resources. Prior to joining CLEE, Shivani aided interdisciplinary climate policy research across academia, private and public sectors in the U.S.A., Ireland and India. Shivani graduated from the MPP program at the University of Chicago and with a Masters in Applied Economics from University College Dublin. As a graduate student, she worked as a Research Assistant and Communications Intern at the Energy Policy Institute (EPIC), as Teaching Assistant for four graduate- and undergraduate-level courses, and created an interdisciplinary framework for conducting nature-based research. Shivani is a two-time EDF Climate Corps Fellow, currently based in New York. She has served in various editorial and environmental leadership positions, most recently as Executive Editor of the Chicago Policy Review and VP of Harris Sustainability Initiative.

Juan Pablo Escudero is a staff attorney at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. His work lies in environmental, land use, and indigenous law both local and comparative. He previously worked as the coordinator of the environmental legislative agenda of the Government of Chile, and advised the Presidency of Chile on environmental and indigenous law issues.